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President Obama has hit the road to talk to America about college affordability. Two weeks ago the President did a "slow jam" with Jimmy Fallon on late night television to demonstrate his support for keeping subsidized Stafford loan rates at 3.4%. Since then, in speeches delivered...

The hoopla surrounding massive open online courses ("MOOCs") got hoopier last week with the announcement that Princeton, Stanford, Penn and Michigan had signed on with the startup Coursera, supported by $16M from Kleiner Perkins and NEA. These are important...

What do the issues of capacity and affordability in higher education have in common? For one, they represent the serial priorities of the Obama Administration in higher education: first to generate an additional 8 million college graduates by 2020 so that the US can once again...

Many educated Americans are surprised to learn that 70% of students enrolled in our colleges and universities attend state-supported institutions. This means that 70% of college students are not paying for the full cost of their education. We believe this was the right decision by...

Like a beautiful but inattentive date, the Obama Administration's recent proposals to improve college affordability and completion mean well, but in a moment of passion end up calling you by the wrong name. Suffice it to say, the date does not lead to the desired...

Thirty years ago America was an economic basket case. The official unemployment rate in 1982 exceeded 10%, but apples-to-apples unemployment (counting it the way we do today) was over 16%. Inflation was north of 6% and the prime interest rate reached 21.5% in June...